Alert archive / Texas / High Wind Watches
High Wind Watches in Texas, 2024
38 high wind watches in 2024. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of high wind watches reaches back to 2005.
High Wind Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 38
- Busiest month
- January8 high wind watches
- Busiest day
- March 22, 20244 high wind watches
Over time
By month
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 1:41 PM CST | High Wind Watch | MAF | Culberson | 26 hr |
| Jan 6, 3:15 AM CST | High Wind Watch | MAF | Brewster, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Presidio, Reeves | 23 hr |
| Jan 7, 1:57 PM CST | High Wind Watch | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray, Hemphill and 6 more | 13 hr |
| Jan 7, 2:37 PM CST | High Wind Watch | LUB | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Crosby, Floyd and 9 more | 12 hr |
| Jan 9, 12:56 PM CST | High Wind Watch | EPZ | El Paso, Hudspeth | 14 hr |
| Jan 9, 2:03 PM CST | High Wind Watch | MAF | Brewster, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Presidio, Reeves | 13 hr |
| Jan 10, 2:39 PM CST | High Wind Watch | CRP | Bee, Duval, Jim Wells, Kleberg, La Salle, Live Oak and 4 more | 23 hr |
| Jan 16, 1:34 PM CST | High Wind Watch | MAF | Culberson | 24 hr |
| Feb 1, 1:27 AM CST | High Wind Watch | MAF | Andrews, Brewster, Crane, Culberson, Ector, Gaines and 10 more | 27 hr |
| Feb 1, 6:47 AM CST | High Wind Watch | EPZ | El Paso, Hudspeth | 31 hr |
| Feb 6, 1:09 AM CST | High Wind Watch | MAF | Culberson | 13 hr |
| Feb 19, 8:39 PM CST | High Wind Watch | MAF | Culberson | 17 hr |
| Feb 24, 1:53 PM CST | High Wind Watch | MAF | Culberson | 23 hr |
| Feb 24, 3:07 PM CST | High Wind Watch | EPZ | El Paso | 37 hr |
| Feb 25, 1:17 PM CST | High Wind Watch | MAF | Brewster, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Loving, Presidio, Reeves | 25 hr |
| Feb 25, 2:26 PM CST | High Wind Watch | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hartley, Moore and 4 more | 12 hr |
| Mar 2, 1:00 AM CST | High Wind Watch | MAF | Culberson | 12 hr |
| Mar 5, 1:37 PM CST | High Wind Watch | MAF | Culberson | 24 hr |
| Mar 11, 2:17 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Culberson | 23 hr |
| Mar 22, 2:24 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Andrews, Brewster, Culberson, Gaines, Jeff Davis, Loving and 4 more | 24 hr |
| Mar 22, 2:26 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | EPZ | El Paso, Hudspeth | 12 hr |
| Mar 22, 2:58 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley and 14 more | 35 hr |
| Mar 22, 3:37 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | LUB | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 15 more | 24 hr |
| Mar 31, 2:06 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Brewster, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Presidio, Reeves | 12 hr |
| Apr 4, 2:17 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Culberson | 25 hr |
| Apr 5, 3:35 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | LUB | Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Hale, Hockley, Lamb and 3 more | 22 hr |
| Apr 5, 4:02 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Gray, Hansford and 10 more | 22 hr |
| Apr 12, 2:41 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | EPZ | El Paso, Hudspeth | 23 hr |
| Apr 13, 1:10 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Brewster, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Presidio | 25 hr |
| Apr 24, 2:05 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Culberson | 11 hr |
| Apr 25, 1:58 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Culberson | 24 hr |
| May 24, 2:11 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Culberson | 11 hr |
| Oct 28, 2:37 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | AMA | Dallam, Hansford, Hartley, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb and 4 more | 23 hr |
| Nov 16, 2:03 AM CST | High Wind Watch | MAF | Brewster, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Presidio | 24 hr |
| Nov 26, 2:01 AM CST | High Wind Watch | MAF | Culberson | 11 hr |
| Dec 6, 10:41 PM CST | High Wind Watch | MAF | Culberson | 15 hr |
| Dec 17, 1:46 AM CST | High Wind Watch | MAF | Culberson | 12 hr |
| Dec 29, 1:11 AM CST | High Wind Watch | MAF | Culberson | 18 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Culberson County24
- Brewster County8
- Jeff Davis County8
- Presidio County8
- Reeves County6
- El Paso County5
- Armstrong County4
- Carson County4
- Deaf Smith County4
- Hutchinson County4
- Oldham County4
- Potter County4
- Randall County4
- Roberts County4
- Hudspeth County4
- Dallam County4
- Hartley County4
- Moore County4
- Sherman County4
- Gray County3
- Hemphill County3
- Bailey County3
- Castro County3
- Cochran County3
- Hale County3
- Hockley County3
- Lamb County3
- Lubbock County3
- Parmer County3
- Swisher County3
- Loving County3
- Hansford County3
- Lipscomb County3
- Ochiltree County3
- Donley County2
- Wheeler County2
- Briscoe County2
- Crosby County2
- Floyd County2
- Lynn County2
29 more counties
- Terry County2
- Yoakum County2
- Andrews County2
- Gaines County2
- Ward County2
- Winkler County2
- Bee County1
- Duval County1
- Jim Wells County1
- Kleberg County1
- La Salle County1
- Live Oak County1
- McMullen County1
- Nueces County1
- San Patricio County1
- Webb County1
- Crane County1
- Ector County1
- Midland County1
- Pecos County1
- Terrell County1
- Upton County1
- Collingsworth County1
- Childress County1
- Cottle County1
- Dickens County1
- Garza County1
- Hall County1
- Motley County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.